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I'm not sure why people are so puritanical about this. I think Beyond Burgers and Soylent are great.
In case you don't know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
Soylent very much had that in mind when naming their product. It's meant to serve the same purpose as the titular substance: a wholly complete food source. Also constantly referencing Soylent Green to denigrate Soylent was precisely what I was referring to lol
Yea maybe it wasn't a good idea to name their product after something literally made from people. They opened themselves up it
Yeah but you referenced Soylent when the original comment was about Soylent Green (which, as you tacitly acknowledge, came first) so you kind of got the cause and effect backwards
well he's not arguing against eating people, he's arguing against a distate for the concept of food replacements. not every post-apocalyptic replacement has to be made from people either
I don't think the person at the beginning of the thread was saying all food would be made from people. I think they were referencing a fictional product for irony and that the person who responded didn't catch, and the responding person said what they said to follow up and anyone with the will to read can interpret for themselves...
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Had a Beyond burger once. Once. I can't put it words what I didn't like, but it was revolting.
I like Beyond Burger more than hamburger but not more than black bean burgers or ground pork. I just dislike ground beef though. That Beyond Burger is made from isolated pea protein, flavoring and wishes. It does have a distinct flavor, and is a highly processed food.
I didnt care about the taste, but woooweee, the farts that it made were thunderous!
I think those burgers are made of compressed farts.
Funny because for me, the Beyond burger taste better than many joint patties, but the price is prohibitively expensive, so I don't buy them that often (or eat burgers that much for that matter)
Shout out to the kirkland brand as well, damn good patties.
Enjoy your heavily processed food full of saturated fat and more than 4x the sodium of beef burgers.
And a touch of GMO goodness with your soylent.
Brother do you know what a GMO is?
Do you know what obvious sarcasm is?
Not that obvious, it seems
I assumed "GMO goodness" was more than low bar enough.
How on earth is he going to process the scientific explanation in the article?
sukhmel probably assumed you meant that you were parodying someone who hates artificial foods and GMOs and did not actually hate them yourself
Do you? Because you sound like some of the arguments I've heard from conservatives/cowbrains when I've talked about not eating meat and trying substitutes.
Like it would take very little effort to make this sound like part of an Alex Jones rant, talk about the nutrition aspect and transition into a lazy ad pivot and you're basically there.
TF are you going on about conservatives, Alex Jones and whatever?
That's some rambling associated with inhabitants of the US banana republic and their fanatic fixation on making everything about them and their 2 sides of the Uniparty.
"Someone in the world doesn't like GMO's, that's also side B's stance and automatically bad!"
"What, Side B says the sun comes up in the east? If they say it it must be in the west!"
Simplistic ridiculous campist thinking.
Really I hope both of your camps burn that joke of a country to the ground and disappear.
Bye now